Tag: Journal of Medical Ethics

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethics, Canada, Charles Camosy, consensus, doctors, George W. Bush, human life, Journal of Medical Ethics, lawyers, Leon Kass, medical ethics, moral tradition, Ontario, orthodoxy, patient choice, Paul Ramsey, philosophers, President’s Council on Bioethics, professors, progressive politics, public health, public policy, The Emerging Tradition of Secular Bioethics, tradition}

Contrary to Claims, Bioethics Is Not a “Moral Tradition”

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October 14, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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Talk about a “heads we win, tails you lose” consensus that can drive Hippocratic physicians out of the profession. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 2, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, body integrity identity disorder, digital twins, disease, doctors, equity, gender-fluidity, government benefits, healing, health insurance, healthcare, Journal of Medical Ethics, medicine, patients, reprogramming, technology, trans identity, transgendeism, transgender people, transhumanists, transition, wellness}

Next: “Digital Twins” as a Matter of “Equity”?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 2, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Medicine is no longer just about treating disease, healing injuries, and promoting physical wellness. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 3, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animals, bioethicists, brains, doctors, experts, human life, humans, Journal of Medical Ethics, lawyers, organoids, philosophers, rats, Research, speciesism, unborn humans}

We Can’t Let “Experts” Decide the Morality of Making “Humanized Animals”

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 3, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Bioethics is a utilitarianish social-political movement whose primary advocates are usually philosophers, lawyers, and/or doctors. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 13, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, anti-humanism, childbirth, civil rights, disease, doctor, gender dysphoria, headaches, infertility, Journal of Medical Ethics, measles, pathogen, patients, pregnancy, vomiting}

Leading Bioethics Journal Pathologizes Pregnancy

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 13, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

The views expressed are consistent with the increasing anti-natalism seen lately in philosophy and bioethics. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abandonment, assisted suicide, Canada, euthanasia, experts, health care, homelessness, housing, Journal of Medical Ethics, laws, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, popular culture, poverty, regulations, suffering, The British Medical Journal, United States}

Bioethicists: Killing Okay for “Unjust Social Conditions”

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 14, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

I can’t imagine this being true ten years ago before euthanasia became legal. Euthanasia mutates a society’s soul. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 7, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abortion, animal rights, animal welfare, Belgium, birth, California, Canada, doctors, Finland, France, gender dysphoria, gender-affirming care, geographical features, glaciers, Holocaust, human life, insects, Jews, Journal of Medical Ethics, mastectomies, Netherlands, Ontario, Oregon, organ donation, peas, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, rivers, Sweden, unborn children, United Kingdom}

The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 7, 2023

Bioethics, Botany, Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 21, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abortion, Colorado, embryos, faith, fetus, Groningen protocol, human beings, Journal of Medical Ethics, Netherlands, Peter Singer, pregnancy, public policy, rights, Second Amendment, The New England Journal of Medicine, unborn, Vermont, World Health Organization}

Pro-Abortion Absolutism and Its Consequences

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 21, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

6}

Abortion absolutism is a radical departure from the once well-accepted idea that nascent human beings — at least at some level — deserve respect and protection. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 13, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, biotechnology, birth, China, Joseph Fletcher, Journal of Medical Ethics, mammals, medicine, rats, The Ethics of Genetic Control, uterus}

Scientists Make Male Rat Give Birth

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 13, 2021

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Scientists just took a big step toward making that once unthinkable prospect — biological males giving birth — a reality. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 4, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, attorneys, bioethics.net, coronavirus, COVID-19, dementia, elderly people, experts, Hastings Center Report, health care, Hippocratic Oath, Huffington Post, John Hardwig, Journal of Medical Ethics, Julian Savulescu, Oxford University, pandemic, physicians, technocracy, Thaddeus Mason Pope}

The Bioethicist Pandemic

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 4, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

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The increasing outsourcing of health-care policy to medical bureaucrats during the COVID-19 crisis illustrates a dangerous temptation. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 14, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, adults, bioethicists, children, doctors, family, gender, gender affirmation, Journal of Medical Ethics, mastectomy, medical interventions, medicine, moral panic, parental consent, parental rights, parenting, puberty, tattooing}

For Bioethicists, This Is “Neglectful” Parenting

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 14, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

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Consider: Children — no matter how “mature” — cannot buy cigarettes or give consent to being tattooed. Read More ›